reverse engineer
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transitive verbDefinition of REVERSE ENGINEER
: to disassemble and examine or analyze in detail (as a product or device) to discover the concepts involved in manufacture usually in order to produce something similar
— reverse engineering noun
Examples of REVERSE ENGINEER
- They reverse engineered the software.
First Known Use of REVERSE ENGINEER
1973
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